Sources of Color Science - Hardcover

MacAdam, David L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262130610 ISBN 13: 9780262130615

Publisher: MIT Press, 1970

Synopsis

Large 8vo. x, 282 pp, preface, Timacus (Plato); On the Soul II, Sense and the Sensible, Metrorologica III (Aristotle); New Theory about Light and Colors, Opticks (Isaac Newton); Theory of Colors and Vision, Theory of Light (George Palmer); On the Theory of Light and Colors (Thomas Young; Theory of Compound Colors (Herman Gunter Grassmann); Theory of the Perception of Colors, The Diagram of Colors Theory of Compound Colors, and the Relations of the Colors of the Spectrum; On Color Vision (James Clerk Maxwell); Physiological Optics (Hermann von Helmholtz); Contributions to the Physiology of Visual Sensations, Chromatic Adaptation, Influence of Adaptation on the effects Produced by Luminous Stimuli (Johannes von Kries; The Optics of Trichromatic Photography (Federic Eugene Ives); Outline of a Theory of Color Measurement for Daylight Vision, Thresholds of Color Differences (Erin Schrodinger); Some Problems of Visual Perception, Interpretation of Quantitative Data in Visual Problems (John Guild); Measurability of Sensations of Hue, Brightness, or Saturation (Lewis Fry Richardson); Retinal Structure and Color Vision (Stephen Polyak); Laminar Pattern of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Considered in Relation to Color Vision (Sir Wilfried E. Le Gros Clark); bibliographic notes, name index, subject index..Selected and Edited by David L. MacAdam: First Edition, 1970. Greenish-yellow cloth with glossy magenta lettering to spine. "This is primarily a collection of little-known, often inaccessible, yet historically significant writings by pioneers in the theory of color: George Palmer, Thomas Young, Hermann Grassman, James Clerk Maxwell, Johannes von Kries, Frederic Ives and Erwin Schrödinger. Works of principal figures Newton's Opticks and Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics are of course exceptions from which the editor has extracted only the most pertinent and interesting passages on color."

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Review

"Spanning the years between 380 B.C. and A.D. 1949, this collection of important papers on the theory and physiology of color vision provides a selective panorama of the thought and research that have contributed to our present ability to handle color problems in industry and science. MacAdam is an eminent scientist in the fields of color vision and color measurement; scarcely another person exists who could have chosen a set of writings, some famous and some obscure, so well-calculated both to enlighten and to please. Here we find a roster of the great names in the field: Newton, Palmer, Young, Grassmann, Maxwell, von Helmholtz, von Kries, Ives, Schrödinger, Guild, Richardson, Polyak and Le Gros Clark. There are even modest contributions from Plato and Aristotle. The book is not always easy reading but, for those who employ color in their work or think about color or simply enjoy color and want to know something about its scientific history, this is a fine and thoughtfully selected volume of papers."
—Leonardo

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0262130610
• ISBN 13: 9780262130615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 282